In English, in an orchestra one might say that one's chair position is 2nd Violin, 5th chair
. The 2nd Violin part is easy to say: 第二小提琴
. But the 5th chair part is troubling. My question is the Chinese way to say X
chair where X
is larger than 2?
I've asked a number of native Chinese speakers but they were also stymied. I'm aware that 1st chair and 2nd chair are 首席 and 副首席.
EDIT: What I mean by chair
is a ranking of skill within the section. It is not very related to the row. An example
(1st row contains 1violin-1stchair, 2v-1c, 1v-2c, and 2v-2c)
can be found here: http://www.violinist.com/discussion/response.cfm?ID=6444